‘Miami’ Searches For A Murder Suspect & His Victim In ‘GO’

After a man is murdered at a bar, the victim and the suspect both go missing in the twenty-first episode of CSI: Miami’s ninth season. (Major spoilers after the jump!)

According to CSI Files sources, “G.O.” opens in a hip, sexy club. Neal Marshall stands out in this crowd, but it’s not in a good way. He’s an average guy, and he looks out of place next to all of the rich, A-list clientele. Undeterred, Neal heads toward the bar and tries to flag down the bartender for a drink. He may as well be invisible because the bartender ignores him. Neal checks his watch, and that’s when he sees an attractive woman at the bar nearby. He tries to say hello, but she sees the wedding ring on his finger and walks away.

Neal attempts to flag the bartender down again, but it’s no use. An attractive waitress named Olivia heads over to help him out. He orders a drink, and she moves toward the bar. Braden Wilkins gets to his feet nearby, and he knocks the tray out of Olivia’s hands. Olivia apologizes, but Braden tosses an insult at her. Neal comes to Olivia’s defense, but Braden isn’t having any of it. He tells Olivia to get her boss because she’s about to get fired, and Neal points out that Braden was the one at fault, not Olivia. Braden shoves Neal, knocking him to the ground.

Neal jumps to his feet, surprising himself and Braden by punching the guy in the jaw. Braden retaliates swiftly, punching Neal over and over until Olivia drags him off and threatens to call security. Braden takes off, and Olivia leans down to help Neal. She tells him to head into the men’s room to clean himself up, and she’ll buy him a drink when he gets back. Neal makes his way slowly toward the bathroom.

Meanwhile, Scott Pendleton has been flirting with a hot girl, and he excuses himself to head into the men’s room. He catches sight of something red out of the corner of his eye, and he sees that it’s a pool of blood spreading across the floor. It’s coming from the handicapped stall, and Scott opens the door slowly to peer inside. He sees Braden on the ground with a knife protruding from his chest, and Neal is standing over the body. Neal turns to Scott, and he tries to proclaim his innocence, but Scott is already running for the door.

By the time Horatio’s team arrives, there’s no sign of Neal—or Braden. Nobody in the bar saw Neal leave dragging a dead body, so the CSIs are frustrated. They need to find their suspect and their victim. The team figures out Neal’s name by looking at the credit card receipts from the bar. Three men named Neal charged drinks the night before, and Olivia identifies Neal Marshall using his DMV photo. She also tells the CSIs that Neal didn’t seem like a killer.

Horatio speaks to Neal’s wife. Jenny shows him a picture of their three daughters, and she insists that her husband has never been in any trouble. Neal told her he had a business meeting to attend, but he was actually supposed to meet his brother Dean at the club. Jenny is surprised, and she demands to know why they would be meeting somewhere like that—Dean doesn’t answer, and Horatio fills the silence by telling Jenny that witnesses saw her husband get into a fight over a woman. Jenny admits that she and Neal have been having difficulties, and Dean jumps in to point out that Neal just needed some space. He and Jenny got married right after they graduated from high school, and he never had a chance to live. Jenny argues that Neal couldn’t could stay irresponsible forever like Dean. Whatever problems they might have been having, Jenny is sure that her husband wouldn’t commit murder over another woman.

A body matching Braden’s description is found in a parking structure across the street from Olivia’s apartment. The team knows this isn’t a coincidence, so Eric and Natalia head over to Olivia’s apartment to ask some questions. Olivia doesn’t answer the door immediately, and she tries to keep them away from the bedroom. Neal is hiding inside, and the team arrests him and Olivia before they can escape. Eric gets in the elevator with them while Natalia stays to start processing Olivia’s apartment.

Neal insists that he’s being framed, but he doesn’t know who wants him to go down for murder. The elevator jolts to a stop, and Neal freaks out. Eric hits the emergency alarm, but nothing happens. The cord from the emergency phone has been cut. Eric demands to know what’s going on, but Neal says whoever set him up is responsible for this. Before they can say anything else, the elevator starts falling out of control. It lurches to a stop after several floors, and Eric tries to pry the doors open so they can get out before the elevator falls again. He needs help, so he takes the handcuffs off of Neal and Olivia so they can work together to pry open the doors. The elevator is stuck between two floors, and they need to crawl up and out of the gap at the top of the doors.

Eric climbs out of the elevator first, and he reaches in for Olivia. The elevator jolts, causing him to lose his grip on her hand. Before he can grab her again, the elevator makes a horrible sound and plunges out of sight. Eric runs for the stairwell, racing for the ground floor and hoping Neal and Olivia survived the fall. He reaches the parking garage and heads for the elevator. To his surprise, the doors are open, and there doesn’t seem to be much damage. Most importantly, Neal and Olivia are nowhere to be found.

Please note that the above plot details have not been confirmed by CBS, Alliance Atlantis or Bruckheimer Films, and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour. The above information comes from early script drafts and the details of the episodes are liable to change before the episodes are shown.

“G.O.” is expected to air May 1 on CBS.